Meanwhile my heavily af modified game over here be like:
and

When you screenshot a game from 2011 and make it the loading screen of a 2014 game... ya might have a problem.

Main Menu is just cute build tbh

ANYWAY neither here nor there, damn the sidetracking

Oh wait before I should explain

Ultimate Decades Challenge is "historical" in that you go from 1300 - 2020 and see if you can make it without all your Sims dying out. So you "live" through The Great Famine, Black Plague, Hundred Years War... that's just the first century lmao

There's also statistics for childbirth and mortality rates being fantastic for the time

Deaths are decided by dice roll and sometimes just a coin flip. It's fun c:

CURRENTLY I'M ON YEAR 1328

We survived the Great Famine with only one casualty, somehow. I am sure that'll come to haunt me when the Plague comes about

Can't have good luck on rolls forever

I'M ON GENERATION 3. Heir is a Child. His name is Rowan and he's doing his best, mark my words.

Generation 1 is STILL ALIVE? Man, they have seen shit, I don't know how they're still kicking

They're also like........ in their 40s which is OLD.

Genuinely, they just have rolled really well through everything

Meanwhile GEN 2 is.... a mixed bag

The eldest, Mercy got married and had a bajillion children. We're very proud. She's a total goodie two shoes, overachiever. Only 2 of her 8 children have passed.

One of her TRIPLETS was supposed to (failed the toddler age up roll) but she basically arm wrestled Grim to give her baby back and it..... worked

Mercy is a terrifying momma bear. We are big proud

HER SIBLINGS. HAVE HAD NO LUCK BY COMPARISON

The eldest son, Weylon. Welp. He was our heir

~was~

He is Rowan's dad, btw

I got a bit cheated by the game, yes. Still bitter

Weylon had a lovely wife Adeline. They were ~In LOVE~ it was so cute. She's a romantic sim, he was family oriented it was CUTE.

They had Rowan, BIG PROUD PAPA.

And Adeline found out she was pregnant again

LITERALLY 3 HOURS after telling Weylon the big news

He dies.

Of heatstroke.

From a clothing bug.

Basically, the game thinks they are wearing winter clothes when it's mid-summer and hot af and they overheat and die

To make matters worse, Grim showed up so fast, no one could react in time to attempt pleading (which is fine in the rules, jsyk)

SO I HIT THAT POINT like Okay........

I can reload because I got cheated

Or I can just go...

SO WE go??

WELP.

ADELINE had twins

F.

Rune and Rose, both survived. Still surviving. They are all super cute

But damn.

TRUE LOVE DIES and she's raising twins on her own

Actually Adeline is kind of a shit parent and the kids have been mainly cared for by Isaac and Mariam, grandpa and grandma

She's just walking around everyday in black for the last 9 years, buried in grief

Grieving is supposed to be 7 years but this girl clings (I'm too lazy to edit her in CAS/I always forget when I am in CAS)

AND SHE'S ROMANTIC so she's just constantly miserable. What a mess

But very much, if she remarried, the situation with heir would get ..... dicey so we're stuck.

Poor Adeline

So that's Weylon and the heir's line

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE

Tarquin, has arguably, had it worse than Adeline

Tarquin is the second surviving son of Isaac and Mariam

He married his first wife, Sade and they were doing great except their children weren't surviving

Sade's last pregnancy was REAL bad

(realistic pregnancy mod, for suffering)

AND I also rolled shit

Nat 1

Sade didn't make it through childbirth, but her son did. Somehow...

Percival is their 4th child. And only surviving child. He's only a toddler, long way to go. Fingers crossed

So here's Tarquin, grieving Sade and eventually he decides. Okay. Maybe it's safe to try again, maybe fall in love etc.....

He meets Fiona. They hit it off. Woohoo. Pun ABSOLUTELY intended

Oh totally married btw

AND........................................

She's with child

yay

Tarquin keeps getting stressed moodlets, you know he's thinking of Sade

AND WORST NIGHTMARE

Fiona doesn't make it through childbirth

Her son, Gislin, survived by some miracle

So now Tarquin has two sons from two different wives who both died in childbirth and this poor kiddo. I just can't imagine him trying to find another wife at this point so I think he'll just do his best for his boys and........ try to be happy?

Man, poor guy.

And then we have Odette, the youngest surviving daughter of Isaac and Mariam. She was a twin. Her brother, Owain, was the casualty I mentioned during the famine. He was 10. It hit the family pretty hard

Odette has also had it kinda rough with getting her little ones to survive

She started off with ..... triplets!

But of course

But only one, Boudica, survived

Boudica is really sweet, such a daddy's little princess. She's a toddler with the angelic trait and she's just CUTE.

Since the triplets she's had 2 sons survive, Taran and Cian but also lost a son as well

So not as bad as Tarquin who just can't catch a break, but she's lost as many babies as she's had survive

It's rough.

AND THEN THE YOUNGEST SURVIVING son of Gen 2, Edmund whooooooooo married a fucking werewolf so..... good job kiddo

You really like to live on the edge, huh.

Her name is Sigrid and we love her and her millions of fleas

No kiddos from them yet but I'm sure ... it'll be interesting

kiddos or puppies..... HMN.

So we're doing our best, chugging along. I am really hoping Isaac and Mariam survive long enough for Rowan to age up to teen because Adeline is, as mentioned, kinda useless! Does not hold a job, barely helps with housework. Like. Doesn't help with the farm, doesn't help with the animals. She just reads all day and cries

Did she pick up the Gloomy trait? Yes............ what gave it away

So a looooooooot of weight is going to fall onto Rowan very quickly once his grandparents pass and I am a whole nervous they will be struggling from there

Not to mention, the Hundred Years war is more or less around the corner and....... all that luck we've had with sons is about to get challenged. Hoooboy.

Fingers crossed lol

i was going to say that your screenshots were so pretty, how did you ever... and then i kept reading lol

Eyyyy

I also use gshade to make things pwettier

i miss the sims, but my laptop officially cannot with it's bloated ass anymore le sob

Yeah.... if your pc is struggling at all I wouldn't recommend the Sims

The last patch broke the game hard and not just for modded games. It broke THE game

Which can't be good for pcs either

and i'd heard that too, lol

what is it with the love/romance packs fundamentally breaking the game. Wedding Stories did the same as i recall

and i heard that just actually re-added the ability to get married without having to deal with WS in the last update

lmao yep

They're threatening another 2 ex packs before 2025 and the community is giving them death glares

The game just can't handle more packs until they fix the issues that already exist

But they want money so

damn i kind of want to do this challenge now...

It's very fun! But mods help with this one

If you are curious...

MORBID'S ULTIMATE DECADES CHALLENGEThis is the rule guide

thanks, i might look into it